PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

I started by doing an MBA, during which I met my cofounder and started our health tech company, Seratis. One skill physicians learn is synthesis, the ability to bring information together from various sources and areas and draw insights. I believe this drives a deeper level of user empathy. There are too many to state.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. The ultimate outcome should be reality-aligned insights. Understand the role of data with nuance. But you’d be wrong.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2021

Behavioral data enables companies to build better products and experiences for their customers. Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy and Snowplow cofounder and CEO Alex Dean took on this topic in a recent webinar. That’s why Alex and cofounder Yali built Snowplow around first-party data collection using an open-source platform.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For marketplaces, these are usually the sellers and providers who spend their entire day attracting users with their products and services.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You can find many more examples here.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. To listen to a podcast, a user adds the RSS feed to their podcast client (such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.), The lion’s share of podcast listening happens at home, followed by taking place in a vehicle.

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